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12721814

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-4-30
pubmed:abstractText
A male patient with bilateral thalamic lesions (medio-ventral nuclei) was investigated. Despite explicit memory impairments his lexical ability was normal. We recorded magnetic field changes (magnetoencephalography, MEG) during the performance of an animate/inanimate discrimination task in which some words where repeated after long delays. Normally, repeated items are classified significantly faster than their first presentations which is accomplished by an unconscious process called priming. The patient did not show any behavioural evidence of priming but the physiological data indicated preservation of this robust form of memory. Brain activation associated with repetitions was attenuated at early stages. The activity difference was posteriorly distributed which is consistent with previous reports about repetition priming. The present study indicated that the bilateral thalamic lesions of our patient disconnected the information processing stream between the primed information and the behavioural response.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0300-9564
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
110
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
537-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Preserved memory traces within diencephalic amnesia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Clinical Neurology, AKH, Wien, Austria. peter.walla@akh.wien.ac.at
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't